In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
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.
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.
it was impossible to confine a Government to the exercise of express powers; there must necessarily be admitted powers by implication, unless the Constitution descended to recount every minutia
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.
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the state governments, in times of peace and security.
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 means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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.
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world...