Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.