Time Never Fails To Bring Every Exalted

[the Framers Of The Constitution] Intended Our Government Should Be A Republic, Which Differs More Widely From A Democracy Than A Democracy From A Despotism.

Should Not The Bible Regain The Place It Once Held As A Schoolbook? Its Morals Are Pure, Its Examples Are Captivating And Noble....in No Book Is There So Good English, So Pure And So Elegant, And By Teaching All The Same They Will Speak Alike, And The Bible Will Justly Remain The Standard Of Language As Well As Of Faith.

[o]ur Sages In The Great [constitutional] Convention... Intended Our Government Should Be A Republic Which Differs More Widely From A Democracy Than A Democracy From A Despotism. The Rigours Of A Despotism Often... Oppress Only A Few, But It Is The Very Essence And Nature Of A Democracy, For A Faction Claiming To Oppress A Minority, And That Minority The Chief Owners Of The Property And Truest Lovers Of Their Country.

I Am Commonly Opposed To Those Who Modestly Assume The Rank Of Champions Of Liberty, And Make A Very Patriotic Noise About The People. It Is The Stale Artifice Which Has Duped The World A Thousand Times, And Yet, Though Detected, It Is Still Successful. I Love Liberty As Well As Anybody. I Am Proud Of It, As The True Title Of Our People To Distinction Above Others; But . . . I Would Guard It By Making The Laws Strong Enough To Protect It.

We Are Not To Consider Ourselves, While Here, As At Church Or School, To Listen To The Harangues Of Speculative Piety; We Are Here To Talk Of The Political Interests Committed To Our Charge.