Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

Let the people have property and they will have power - a power that will forever be exerted to prevent the restriction of the press, the abolition of trial by jury, or the abridgment of any other privilege.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.

The liberty of the press, trial by jury, the Habeas Corpus Writ, even Magna Carta itself, although justly deemed the paladia of freedom, are all inferior considerations, when compared with the general distribution of real property among every class of people.