"Every man who is not a fool knows that a bad government is a great evil; but that there is no greater evil than a weak government."

"The only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in …"

"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than tho…"

"The tendency of all changes of a progressive kind, is to give increased ascendancy to the comparatively uninstructed many."

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."