"A prohibition is equally called for against the acceptance by our citizens of special licenses to be used in a trade with the United States."
"We should not be left in unnecessary dependence on external supplies."
"To secure greater respect to our mercantile flag."
"I can not close this communication without expressing my deep sense of the crisis in which you are assembled."
"In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature."
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
"In republican government, the legislative authority necessarily predominates."
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
"Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression."
"The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests."
"The public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and the measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior f..."
"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires."