The Spirit of Enterprise, which characterizes the commercial part of America, has left no occasion of displaying itself unimproved. It is not at all probable that this unbridled spirit would pay much respect to those regulations of trade by which particular States might endeavor to secure exclusive benefits to their own citizens.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.

The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation