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.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Among the several cloudy appellatives which have been commonly employed as cloaks for misgovernment, there is none more conspicuous in this atmosphere of illusion than the word Order.

Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.

Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.