It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of. I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it. I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto. If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.