Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.

I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

[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.