The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves.

But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.