Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.

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

Without virtue, happiness cannot be.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

Light and liberty go together.

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.