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.

[O]ur sages in the great [constitutional] convention... intended our government should be a republic which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism. The rigours of a despotism often... oppress only a few, but it is the very essence and nature of a democracy, for a faction claiming to oppress a minority, and that minority the chief owners of the property and truest lovers of their country.

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.

Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.

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

[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.