It Is Better That Ten Guilty Persons

Men Was Formed For Society, And Is Neither Capable Of Living Alone, Nor Has The Courage To Do It.

Free Men Have Arms; Slaves Do Not.

To Deny The Possibility, Nay, The Actual Existence Of Witchcraft And Sorcery, Is At Once Flatly To Contradict The Revealed Word Of God In Various Passages Both Of The Old And New Testament, And The Thing Itself Is A Truth To Which Every Nation In The World Hath, In Its Turn, Borne Testimony, By Either Example Seemingly Well Attested Or By Prohibitory Laws, Which At Least Suppose The Possibility Of A Commerce With Evil Spirits.

Trial By Jury Is A Privilege Of The Highest And Most Beneficial Nature [and] Our Most Important Guardian Both Of Public And Private Liberty. The Liberties Of England Cannot But Subsist So Long As This Palladium Remains Sacred And Inviolate, Not Only From All Open Attacks, ... But Also From All Secret Machinations, Which May Sap And Undermine It.

There Is Nothing Which So Generally Strikes The Imagination, And Engages The Affections Of Mankind, As The Right Of Property; Or That Sole And Despotic Dominion Which One Man Claims And Exercises Over The External Things Of The World, In Total Exclusion Of The Right Of Any Other Individual In The Universe. And Yet There Are Very Few, That Will Give Themselves The Trouble To Consider The Original And Foundation Of This Right.