In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

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

The civil jury is a valuable safeguard to liberty.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.

A promise must never be broken.

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.