A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.

The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success; whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the Priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State.

All power in human hands is liable to be abused.

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

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.