It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.
The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.
Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.
Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.
If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.
It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.