No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law.

No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.