It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.

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

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.