[i]t Is The Reason Alone, Of The

It Is A Melancholy Reflection That Liberty Should Be Equally Exposed To Danger Whether The Government Have Too Much Power Or Too Little Power And That The Line Which Divides These Extremes Should Be So Inaccurately Defined By Experience.

Every Word Of [the Constitution] Decides A Question Between Power And Liberty.

The Most That The Convention Could Do In Such A Situation, Was To Avoid The Errors Suggested By The Past Experience Of Other Countries, As Well As Of Our Own; And To Provide A Convenient Mode Of Rectifying Their Own Errors, As Future Experience May Unfold Them.

I Go On The Principle That A Public Debt Is A Public Curse And In A Republican Government More Than In Any Other.

Religion Flourishes In Greater Purity, Without Than With The Aid Of Government.