"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations."

"A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation."

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice."

"All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."

"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed."

"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts."