In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.

Towns were the nursery of freedom.

A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.