When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.

My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.

The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.