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.

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument.

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