Experience (has) long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can when we cannot do all we would wish |
Experience declares that man is only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and the general prey of the rich on the poor |
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny |
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. |
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. |
For Heaven's sake discard the monstrous wig which makes the English judges look like rats peeping through bunches of oakum |
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead... |
Force cannot give right |
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. |
Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism. |
France has sincerely wished peace, and their seducers have wished war, as well for the loaves and fishes which arise out of war expenses, as for the chance of changing the Constitution |
France is every man's second country |
Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us |
Freedom of the person under the protection of habeas corpus. I deem one of the essential principles of our government. |
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? |