It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.