In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority..

The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation th….

Conscience is the most sacred of all property..

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity.….

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or ha….

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have b….

A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person, can admit….

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart..

The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, ….

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done..

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment..

Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant..

Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governme….

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages..

That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is vi….

Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for the support of any one es….

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be nec….

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other..

Resistance to tyranny is service to God..

But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as ind….

The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the gre….