"The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions."
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the Republican model of Government are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hand..."
"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered... deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the ha..."
"My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution."
"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government * * * whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
"In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature."
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
"In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates."
"Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression."
"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light."
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
"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 f..."
"As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed."
"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."
"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires."
"It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the hel..."
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God."
