It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.