Any rule, not existing in the nature of things, or that is not permanent, universal and inflexible in its application, is no law, according to any correct definition of the term law.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

There is not, in the Constitution, a syllable that implies that persons, born within the territorial limits of the United States, have allegiance imposed upon them on account of their birth in the country, or that they will be judged by any different rule, on the subject of treason, than persons of foreign birth.

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 only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this - that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.