"Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent."

"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable."

"Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

"Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty."