The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

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

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

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

Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.

We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press...It is a precious pest, and a necessary mischief, and there would be no liberty without it.

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