"If I cannot reform with equity, I will not reform at all."

"The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations."

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

"I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this."