The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

A large portion of our citizens, who will not believe, even on the evidence of facts, that any public evils exist, or are impending. They deride the apprehensions of those who foresee, that licentiousness will prove, as it ever has proved, fatal to liberty.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.