“Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.”

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Turn over a new leaf.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Depression is the absence of hope.

Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults.

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.