Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.

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

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists