The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.