To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

The constitution has divided the powers of government into three branches, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, lodging each with a distinct magistracy. The Legislative it has given completely to the Senate and House of Representatives. It has declared that the Executive powers shall be vested in the President, submitting special articles of it to a negative by the Senate, and it has vested the Judiciary power in the courts of justice, with certain exceptions also in favor of the Senate.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.