All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.