"...the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence …"

"England was, until we copied her, the only country on earth which ever, by a general law, gave a legal right to the e…"

"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry."

"It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected."

"Widespread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy"

"It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no individual has, of natural right, a separate…"

"The incorporation of a bank and the powers assumed [by legislation doing so] have not, in my opinion, been delegated …"

"Let the eye of vigilance never be closed."

"The law books abound with similar instances of the care the judges take of the public integrity, Laws, moreover, abri…"

"I have ever deemed it more honorable and profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one."