As to the evil which results from censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but by the hand of tyranny.

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.

The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.