When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.