The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.