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

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

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

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves