I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.
One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.