No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.