War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

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

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights.