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

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

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

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.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly