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.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

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

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.