My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to th...
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government * * * whenever things get so far wr...
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates.
If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal contro...
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as trul...
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
The public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and the measures are too often decided, not according ...
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...
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all sub...
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
United we stand, divided we fall.
