A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
A free people claim their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
