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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. "

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

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

" Philosophy is common sense with big words. "

" Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

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