Disarm The People- That Is The Best

[the Republican Party] Consists Of Those Who, Believing In The Doctrine That Mankind Are Capable Of Governing Themselves And Hating Hereditary Power As An Insult To The Reason And An Outrage To The Rights Of Men, Are Naturally Offended At Every Public Measure That Does Not Appeal To The Understanding And To The General Interest Of The Community.

Any Reading Not Of A Vicious Species Must Be A Good Substitute For The Amusements Too Apt To Fill Up The Leisure Of The Labouring Classes.

The Danger From Legislative Usurpations, Which, By Assembling All Power In The Same Hands, Must Lead To The Same Tyranny As Is Threatened By Executive Usurpations.

It Is A Misfortune Incident To Republican Government, Though In A Less Degree Than To Other Governments, That Those Who Administer It, May Forget Their Obligations To Their Constituents, And Prove Unfaithful To Their Important Trust.

A Public Debt Is A Public Curse.