The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly consid...
There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in ev...
To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.
The great mass of our Citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.
I cannot conceive a rank more honorable than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people—the...
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
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...
