Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
A well-adjusted government should be a firm guardian of the nation’s property and interests, while allowing for the freedom of the individua...
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people.
The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of int...
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
The public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and the measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of just...
Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.
It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the publ...
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way ...
A strong sense of the value of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government.
The Union will be more happy, more respectable, and more durable, if all the parts of it consider themselves as mutual friends and fellow-ci...
Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems...
It is not to be doubted that a unanimous and punctual observance of treaties and public engagements are the best fruits of good faith and ho...
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges,...
The people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently the founders of such a society as that of the United States.
