Free men have arms; slaves do not.

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

Every wanton and causeless restraint of the will of the subject, whether practiced by a monarch, a nobility, or a popular assembly, is a degree of tyranny.

Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.