When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

The foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.