Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from
I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense
The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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