On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

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

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.