"The public interest requires that the public should be well informed."

"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."

"The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded."