The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them by their demagogues... and the violent men, who are the most forward to gratify those passions, will be their favorites. What is called the government of the people is in fact too often the arbitrary power of such men. Here, then, we have the faithful portrait of democracy.

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

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 ?

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

Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority reigns in the heart, and on the influence all these produce on public opinion before that opinion governs rulers.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

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