The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government.

The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to the state legislatures.

We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

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