The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in a state of nature, the haunt of a few wretched savages, when it seems destined by the Creator to give support to a large population and to be the seat of civilization?

The liberties of a people depend on their own constant attention to its preservation.

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.