4 Quotes by Elbridge Gerry

A standing army is like a standing member. It’s an excellent assurance of domestic tranquility, but a dangerous temptation to foreign adventure.

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.

Self defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish; the immediate gift of the Creator, obliges everyone to resist the first approaches of tyranny.

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.