To God, and not to man, are all men to account for their belief

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

A man who is so exceedingly civil that for the sake of quietude and a peaceable name will silently see the community imposed upon, or their rights invaded, may, in his principles, be a good man, but cannot be stiled a useful one, neither …

This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Eloquence may strike the ear, but the language of poverty strikes the heart; the first may charm like music, but the second alarms like a knell.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsupposed circumstances ... that no human wisdom can calculate the end.