[The Federalist Party are m]ore partial to the opulent than to the other classes of society; and [have] debauched themselves into ...a persuasion that mankind are incapable of governing themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Religion, or the duty which we owe our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, n...ot by force and violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his facultie...s, or his possessions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hatin...g hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and... as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.... Who does not see that the same authority which can establi...sh Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A universal and perpetual peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events which will never exist but in the imaginations ...of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I cannot think of punishing him ... merely for coveting that liberty for which we have paid the price of so much blood, and have p...roclaimed so often to be the right, and worthy pursuit of every human being.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »