Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.

Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be commenced, continued, or concluded.