The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Fisher Ames
choice ambition liberty government democracy ignorance call ignorant freedom
I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.
people
The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people. Freedom of the press, too.
rights conscience people government
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
language
The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
mind
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