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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely appli...more

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I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. C...more

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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

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Those who, while they disapprove of the character and measures of a government, yield to it their allegiance and support are undoubtedly its most cons...more

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A common and natural result of an undue respect of law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys, ...more

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This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant los...more

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Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts, -a mere sha...more

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for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

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The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before ...more

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If any think that their influence would be lost there, and their voices no longer afflict the ear of the State, that they would not be as an enemy wit...more

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Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

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Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress...more

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Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

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If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.