When a man has emerged from slavery, there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

All men are created equal.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

The welfare of the people is the highest law

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old, and had never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging their bread; go, Teachers of content and honest pride, into the mine, the mill, the forge, the squalid depths of deepest ignorance, and uttermost abyss of man's neglect, and say can any hopeful plant spring up in air so foul that it extinguishes the soul's bright torch as fast as it is kindled!

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.

Our policemen and women are disrespected. We need law and order, but we need justice, too.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose not only the tyranny but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind!

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.