Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.

The right of self-government does not comprehend the government of others.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

It may be regarded as certain that not a foot of land will ever be taken from the Indians without their own consent.