"There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world."

"It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good."

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."

"The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour."

"A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

"Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes."

"Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people."