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" Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. "

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

" No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. "

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

" Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. "

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

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

" 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. "

" The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. "

" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "

" The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. "

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

" We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties. "

" 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. "