Absolute power demoralizes.

Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.

There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

Progress, the religion of those who have none.

It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.

History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.