I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.