How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

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