The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
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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.
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
Goodnight
…a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It