An elective despotism was not the government we fought for.

The sun - my almighty physician.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.

If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.

To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.

[The People] are the ultimate, guardians of their own liberty.