A well-adjusted government should be a firm guardian of the nation’s property and interests, while allowing for the free...
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people.
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, aft...
The Union will be more happy, more respectable, and more durable, if all the parts of it consider themselves as mutual f...
A strong sense of the value of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government.
It is not to be doubted that a unanimous and punctual observance of treaties and public engagements are the best fruits ...
Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing fo...
The people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently the founders of such a society as that of the United Stat...
Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same anc...
Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and ...
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national...
The vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.
