Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise but little danger.

In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing in great crises to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

He who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

If indeed a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes and yet the government of course is arming criminals.