And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.