The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

I emphasize the reply that the liberty which a citizen enjoys is to be measured, not by the nature of the governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the relative paucity of the restraints it imposes on him.

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.