It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on the comparative ambition or address of the different governments, whether either, or which of them, will be able to enlarge its sphere of jurisdiction at the expense of the other.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

An oath-the strongest of religious ties.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.