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" The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. "

" Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. "

" A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. "

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

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

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

" 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 men were angels, no government would be necessary. "

" It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. "

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

" I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. "

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

" 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. "