The man is free who is protected from injury.

Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.