The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.

Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

The prudent capitalist will never adventure his capital . . . if there exists a state of uncertainty as to whether the Government will repeal tomorrow what it has enacted today.

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.