I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the world. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest.

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.