“I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions.”
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“We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.”
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.”
“Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.”
“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”
“Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.”
“It is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be read.”
“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed.”
“Although we are free by the law, we are not so in practice.”
“After all, it is my principle that the will of the Majority should always prevail.”
“The sun passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.”
“The unassisted hand and the understanding left to itself possess but little power.”
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument.”
“Truth, therefore, and utility are here perfectly identical.”
“The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain.”
“It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed.”