The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
We are descended from a people whose government was founded on liberty; our glorious forefathers of Great Britain made liberty the foundation of everything. That country is become a great, mighty, and...
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor of citizenship.
It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.
The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me dea...
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.