There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
“What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.”
“Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.”