Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.