Oliver Ellsworth quotes

A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry. (Oliver Ellsworth)
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them. View quote
Oliver Ellsworth
It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade. View quote
Oliver Ellsworth
The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges. View quote
Oliver Ellsworth
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words. View quote
Oliver Ellsworth
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. View quote
Oliver Ellsworth