"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."

 

"Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obliged to trust with power.... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." -- 1799