Power is of an encroaching nature.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his 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.

[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself.