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

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.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

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.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.