Liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?
What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?