Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

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.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.