The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior.