It Is Harder To Preserve Than To

Irresponsible Power Is Inconsistent With Liberty, And Must Corrupt Those Who Exercise It.

How Can Those Who Are Invested With The Power Of Government Be Prevented From The Abuse Of Those Powers As The Means Of Aggrandizing Themselves? ... Without A Strong Constitution To Counteract The Strong Tendency Of Government To Disorder And Abuse There Can Be Little Progress Or Improvement.

The Will Of A Majority Is The Will Of A Rabble. Progressive Democracy Is Incompatable With Liberty.

The Government Of The Absolute Majority Instead Of The Government Of The People Is But The Government Of The Strongest Interests; And When Not Efficiently Checked, It Is The Most Tyrannical And Oppressive That Can Be Devised.

Of All Earthly Blessings, I Place Liberty In The First Rank, And Of Course, Consider The Obligation To Defend And Preserve It, As The Most Sacred Of All Our Civil And Social Duties... It Is Not In The Power Of Any Single, Or Few Individuals To Preserve Liberty. It Can Only Be Effected By The People Themselves; By Their Intelligence, Virtue, Courage, And Patriotism.