The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.

Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.

A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.