Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be so contrived as to render the one independent of the other.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

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