Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective