The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.

Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.

Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

These are the days that try man's heart.

They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.