What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws, and not of men. It will certainly cease to deserve this high appellation, if the laws furnish no remedy for the violation of a vested legal right.

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

I have always believed that national character... depends more on the female part of society than is generally imagined. Precepts from the lips of a beloved mother... sink deep in the heart, and make an impression which is seldom entirely effaced.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.