No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

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

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

Time never fails to bring every exalted reputation to a strict scrutiny.

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