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

Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

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.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

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

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

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.