A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them by different modes of election, and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions, and their common dependence on the society, will admit.

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

Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.