"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries."

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.

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

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.