Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

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

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood.

It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective