Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

Not that (the justices) intended it that way. But it has that effect.