"It is seldom, that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom, that it must steal upon them by degrees, and must disguise itself in a thou…"

"Liberty, according to the most common acceptation of the word, is an entire absence of all external impediments of motion."

"Liberty, according to the most common acceptation of the word, means a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will."

"terror is the primary principle of religion."

"The chief spring or actuating principle of the human mind is pleasure or pain."