If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.

The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.