Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people—the...
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in ev...
My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to th...
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government * * * whenever things get so far wr...
A nation without a national government is, in my view, an awful spectacle.
The judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Const...
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts.
Those who are to be the judges of the law ought to be independent, and under the influence of none but heaven.
The wisdom of a few has often outweighed the clamor of many.
It is essential to the security of liberty that the government in general should have a common interest with the people.
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal contro...
In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as trul...
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its...
