The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

The request of industry to government is as modest as that of Diogenes to Alexander: Get out of my light.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.