“The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.”
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The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
