The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the ….

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within..

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power..

Democracy is the most vile form of government..

Philosophy is common sense with big words..

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights..

We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility because wealth will be….

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty..

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives..

Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few..

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government..

Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them..

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority..

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties..

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?.

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm..

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm..

The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed th….

The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as the great mass o….

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, sel….

Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of the edifice prepa….