"Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain; Here Patriot Truth her gl…"

"[O]ur constitutions of government have declared that all men are born free and equal, and have certain inalienable ri…"

"It has often been matter of regret in modern times that, in the construction of the Statute of Limitations, the decis…"

"Be brief, be pointed, let your matter stand Lucid in order, solid and at hand; Spend not your words on trifles but co…"

"He who seeks equity must do equity."

"I am not able to understand how it can be correctly said in a legal sense, that an action will not lie even in the ca…"

"The Constitution unavoidably deals in general language. It did not suit the purposes of the people, in framing this g…"

"The patent act uses the phrase 'useful invention' merely incidentally. ... All that the law requires is, that the inv…"

"If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable…"

"Every free man has an undoubted right to lay what sentiments he pleases before the public; to forbid this is to destr…"