Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

Possession is nine-tenths of the law.

I will not avoid doing what I think is right, though it should draw on me the whole artillery that falsehood and malice can invent, or the credulity a deluded population can swallow.