Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of constitutional questions to the decision of the whole society.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.