Falsehood is a perennial spring.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.