It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion.
The firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment b
never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased
Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
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.
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.