It takes two flints to make a fire.

The period is now arrived, in which either they or we must change our sentiments, or one or both must fall.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.