As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

[It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the chief Magistrate.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

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

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other-that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.