"The strongest argument against despotism is that it does not adequately educate the people it governs."

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

"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…"

"Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing."

"No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead."