No person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law. . . . On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.