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" Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. "

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

" 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. "

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

" The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. "

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

" Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. "

" What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed? "

" All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former. "

" War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. "

" Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. "

" The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. "

" Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic. "

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

" Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. "

" The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. "

" War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. "

" The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right. "

" I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment. "

" What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? "

" As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. "

" To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. "

" And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together. "

" As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. "

" A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. "