I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the charge of the court is wrong.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

It has been observed, [that for the federal government] to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.

The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.