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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

I have heard it remarked that men are not to be reasoned out of an opinion they have not reasoned themselves into.

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.