[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

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

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.