I Will Defend the Constitution

* Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

* Fear is the foundation of most governments.

* I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

* I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

* In politics the middle way is none at all.

* Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

* Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

* Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

* The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

* The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

* There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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