No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country.

The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest which they will individually feel in whatever concerns the government.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.

For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?

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.