The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

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

A nation has a right to manage its own concerns as it thinks fit.

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

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.

To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the uniform course of human events, and to set at defiance the accumulated experience of ages.