The standard of good behavior for the continuance in office of the judicial magistracy is certainly one of the most valuable of the modern improvements in the practice of government.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

It is in vain to hope to guard against events too mighty for human foresight or precaution, and it would be idle to object to a government because it could not perform impossibilities.

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .

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