These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the King of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable: There is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable, no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution.

Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.