I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
The right of an inventor to his invention is no monopoly - in any other sense than a man's house is a monopoly.
One country, one constitution, one destiny.
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
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.