Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.

Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property, according to standing laws.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.