I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery. - Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the Romish clergy.

Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of the same rights.

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate, just as national sovereignty is above the secondary agreements of the government.