“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends
“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent
“When earth breaks up and heaven expands, how will the change strike me and you in the house not made with hands?
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom