In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

If the question [before justices of the peace] relate to any point of public liberty, or if it be one of those in which the judges may be suspected of bias, the jury undertake to decide both law and fact.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break out into overt acts against peace and good order.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.