The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.