Junius

“In the shipwreck of the state, trifles float and are preserved; while everything solid and valuable sinks to the bottom, and is lost forever.”

“One precedent creates another. They soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was fact, today is doctrine.”

“The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.”

“We owe it to our ancestors to preserve those institutions which they have delivered down to us.”

“The submission of a free people to the executive authority of government is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.”

“Private credit is wealth; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird, supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.”

“To be acquainted with the merit of a ministry, we need only observe the condition of the people.”

“The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures.”

“It is not the man, but the measure, that is the object of his opposition.”

“They are the trustees, not the owners of the estate. The fee-simple is in us.”