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Unable to perceive a single chance of regaining their equality, they give up to despair, and allow themselves to fall below the dignity of human nature.

The Government can not successfully insure prosperity or fix prices by legislative fiat.

Those that have joined with their honor great travels, cares, or perils, are less subject to envy.

The press and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.

Melancholy is the condition of that people whose government can be sustained only by a system which periodically transfers large amounts from the labor of the many to the coffers of the few.

The endorsement of that position by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land.

The many have always been enthralled by the few; and, monsters who have scarcely shown any discernment of human excellence, have tyrannized over thousands of their fellow creatures.

Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long in freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.

this vice of ingratitude has its source either in avarice or in suspicion

the nature of the people is variable, and whilst it is easy to persuade them, it is difficult to fix them in that persuasion

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

The great Government we loved has too often been made use of for private and selfish purposes, and those who used it had forgotten the people.

was it not obvious that flocks and herds were more ready to obey their keepers than men their rulers