Democracy is the most vile form of government.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.

It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in religious opinion. Time has at length revealed the true remedy. Every relaxation of narrow and rigorous policy, wherever it has been tried, has been found to assuage the disease.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

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