On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in usurped powers, might subvert forever, and beyond the possible reach of any rightful remedy, the very Constitution which all were instituted to preserve.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

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.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success; whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the Priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.