Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.