Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe, because the corrupting of the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth, and public ones cannot be provided but by levies on the people. In this case every man would have to pay his own price.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.