How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so glorious an example to mankind!

The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has given his consent, either in person or by his representative; in the latter, he is governed by the will of another. In the one case, his life and property are his own; in the other, they depend upon the pleasure of his master. It is easy to discern which of these two states is preferable.

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.