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

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

The power to tax involves the power to destroy;...the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create.

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.

No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.