No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment....

In our judgment, it is not in the interest of the common good.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

It is bad judgment to speak of halters in the house of a man who was hanged

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.