My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.