But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.
A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.
Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.
The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.
The secret ballot makes a secret government; and a secret government is a secret band of robbers and murderers.
In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.
Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.
The greatest of all crimes are the wars that are carried on by governments, to plunder, enslave, and destroy mankind.