Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders

Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable

The law It has honored us may we honor it

Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may