If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or a….

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance..

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accord….

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessio….

If men were angels, no government would be necessary..

All power in human hands is liable to be abused..

Despotism can only exist in darkness..

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ..

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea..

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom..

The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger wil….

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home..

Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of almost every oth….

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite..

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..

We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political cons….

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society aga….

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulatin….

A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign invasion and domestic op….

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right..

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesi….