Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.