No man has a right to disturb the public peace by personally resisting the execution of a law, however bad. He ought to acquiesce, using at the same time the utmost powers of his reason to promote its repeal. X. A man must have a right to act in a certain manner, before it can be his duty. He may, before he ought. XI. A man has a right to think as his reason directs; it is a duty he owes to himself to think with freedom, that he may act from conviction. XII. A man has a right to unrestricted liberty of discussion. Falsehood is a scorpion that will sting itself to death. XIII. A man has not only a right to express his thoughts, but it is his duty to do so. XIV. No law has a right to discourage the practice of truth. A man ought to speak the truth on every occasion. A duty can never be criminal; what is not criminal cannot be injurious. XV. Law cannot make what is in its nature virtuous or innocent to be criminal, any more than it can make what is criminal to be innocent. Government cannot make a law; it can only pronounce that which was the law before its organization; viz., the moral result of the imperishable relations of things. XVI. The present generation cannot bind their posterity: the few cannot promise for the many. XVII. No man has a right to do an evil thing that good may come. XVIII. Expediency is inadmissible in morals. Politics are only sound when conducted on principles of morality: they are, in fact, the morals of nations. XIX. Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. XX. Man, whatever be his country, has the same rights in one place as another--the rights of universal citizenship. XXI. The government of a country ought to be perfectly indifferent to every opinion. Religious differences, the bloodiest and most rancorous of all, spring from partiality. XXII. A delegation of individuals, for the purpose of securing their rights, can have no undelegated power of restraining the expression of their opinion. XXIII. Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. XXIV. A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren. XXV. If a person’s religious ideas correspond not with your own, love him nevertheless. How different would yours have been had the chance of birth placed you in Tartary or India! XXVI. Those who believe that Heaven is, what earth has been, a monopoly in the hands of a favoured few, would do well to reconsider their opinion; if they find that it came from their priest or their grandmother, they could not do better than reject it. XXVII. No man has a right to be respected for any other possessions but those of virtue and talents. Titles are tinsel, power a corruptor, glory a bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. XXVIII.