"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

"The only sure way to prevent the abuse of power is to limit it."

"A great empire and little minds go ill together."

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."