Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.