...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.

Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.