Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of matrydom to the reformers of error.

Ain't no right way to do a wrong thing.

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

One is often kept in the right road by a rut.

of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emissions standards from man-made sources."

There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true.

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.

As to Jesus of Nazareth... I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with most of the present Dissent

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.