Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

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.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

It is comfortable to see the standard of reason at length erected, after so many ages, during which the human mind has been held in vassalage by kings, priests, and nobles; and it is honorable for us to have produced the first legislature who had the courage to declare that the reason of man may be trusted with the formation of his own opinions.