It is useless to make good laws for bad people. Public sentiment is more than law. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Men born to freedom are naturally alert to reject invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers.
Virtue is to be feared more than vice because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.