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.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can scarcely lose its liberty from any other cause than that of anarchy, to which a contempt of the laws is the high-road.

Those who do not industrialize become hewers of wood and hawkers of water

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution.