All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

All authority belongs to the people.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.