If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other