Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to the legislature, and not the executive department. ... The trust and the temptation would be too great for any one man.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.