"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

"It is a general error to imagine that those whom we call authors are the only writers. There is another class of writers, and a very numerous one, who are in the habit of writing without ever putting …"

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

"The love of lucre, and not the love of liberty, is the motive of their conduct."