In America, the Law is King.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

A constitution of government, once changed from freedom can never be restored. Liberty, once lost is lost forever.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the government exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.