There Is Not A Soul Who Does

Far From Being The Product Of A Democratic Revolution And Of An Opposition To English Institutions, The Constitution Of The United States Was The Result Of A Powerful Reaction Against Democracy, And In Favor Of The Traditions Of The Mother Country.

The Barbarians, Who Possessed No Books, No Secular Knowledge, No Education, Except In The Schools Of The Clergy, And Who Had Scarcely Acquired The Rudiments Of Religious Instruction, Turned With Childlike Attachment To Men Whose Minds Were Stored With The Knowledge Of Scripture, Of Cicero, Of St. Augustine; And In The Scanty World Of Their Ideas, The Church Was Felt To Be Something Infinitely Vaster, Stronger, Holier Than Their Newly Founded States.

There Is No Worse Heresy Than That The Office Sanctifies The Holder Of It.

A Government Does Not Desire Its Powers To Be Strictly Defined, But The Subjects Require The Line To Be Drawn With Increasing Precision.

The Man Who Prefers His Country Before Any Other Duty Shows The Same Spirit As The Man Who Surrenders Every Right To The State. They Both Deny That Right Is Superior To Authority.