"A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government."

"I have a mind that is perpetually at war with itself."

"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments."

"I have been so much in the habit of acting for myself that I am sometimes apt to forget that I am not alone in the world."

"The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution."