Acton Republican Town Committee

The natural cure for an ill administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights... Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power... Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go...

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.