I consider knowledge to be the soul of a republic, and as the weak and wicked are generally in alliance, as much care should be taken to diminish the number of the former as of that latter. Education is the way to do this, and nothing should be left undone to afford all ranks of people that means of obtaining a proper degree of it at a cheap and easy rate.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights, in order to vest it with requisite powers.
Pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication and with it a thousand pranks and fooleries.
The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
Those who own the country ought to govern it.
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