How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

Learn to think continentally.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!

The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.