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The first duty of law is to keep sound the society it serves.

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.

Tyrannous exaction brings on servile concealment; and that again calls forth tyrannous coercion.

Her power often gives her what she has no right to, but does not enable her to assert her own rights.

If ever any system of privilege and enforced subjection had its yoke tightly riveted on the necks of those who are kept down by it, this has.

The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.

Anger is not only a vice, but a vice point-blank against nature, for it divides instead of joining

What right have I to be free, that another man cannot prove himself to possess by nature?

While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest.