It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.

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.

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

Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

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