The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.
What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.
We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty.
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.