"Silent enim leges inter arma (Laws are..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No one dies too soon who has finished the course of perfect virtue.”

“I speak of that learning which wakes us acquainted with the boundless extent of nature, and the universe, and which even while we remain in this world, discovers to us both heaven, earth, and sea.”

“It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.”

“Good men must not obey the laws too well.”

“Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.”

“The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax”

“Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!”

“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery, it will be because they are indifferent to slavery, or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their vote. They will then be the only slaves. Only his vote can hasten the abolition of slavery who asserts his own freedom by his vote.”

“For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.”