Now it is clear, that if the government can exclude, on account either of their opinions or feelings, any persons thus drawn by lot, the trial is no longer a trial by 'the country,' but only by a portion of the country.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.