"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."

"It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution."

"It is time enough for the rightful purposes of government for its officers to show that no one can be trusted."

"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions, have a bias to look to the civil arm for support, and to awe with civil penalties."

"The earth belongs to the living, not the dead."