The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

The rich man, when contributing to a permanent plan for the education of the poor, ought to reflect that he is providing for that of his own descendants; and the poor man who concurs in a provision for those who are not poor that at no distant day it may be enjoyed by descendants from himself. It does not require a long life to witness these vicissitudes of fortune.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.