Every generation needs a new revolution.

Trial by jury is part of the bright constellation which leads to peace, liberty and safety.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.