To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.

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.

There should be a law to the People besides its own will.

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.