How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking.

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