In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters in the State administrations as are capable of preferring their own emolument and advancement to the public weal.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.