When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.

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.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.