The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

The very idea of law originates in men's natural rights. There is no other standard, than natural rights, by which civil law can be measured. Law has always been the name of that rule or principle of justice, which protects those rights. Thus we speak of natural law.

All governments, the worst on earth, and the most tyrannical on earth, are free governments to that portion of the people who voluntarily support them.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.