Dependence leads to subservience.
Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.
All power is inherent in the people.
No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.
The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.
It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.