The public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and the measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing…

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.