Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.
Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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.
