Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces the legislative, executive, and judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.