One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

There was a time when we were told . . . that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members...This language at the present day would appear as wild as that great part of what we now hear from the same quarter will be thought, when we shall have received further lessons from that best oracle of wisdom, experience.

Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can scarcely lose its liberty from any other cause than that of anarchy, to which a contempt of the laws is the high-road.

Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ all the means requisite . . . to the attainment of the ends of such power.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.