Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.

[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.