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.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.

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.

No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.