The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the Hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.