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" Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. "

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" By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. "

" The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. "

" America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. "

" If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. "

" The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. "

" In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. "

" The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state. "

" Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere. "

" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "

" Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. "

" The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived. "

" A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. "

" Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty. "

" A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country. "

" There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong. "

" If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. "

" Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. "

" In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. "

" A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States. "

" All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. "

" The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science. "

" The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. "

" What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? "

" To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. "

" Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. "

" The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security. "

" It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood. "

" The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. "

" A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people. "

" In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. "