The [president] has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction. . . .

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

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

Learn to think continentally.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.