This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them.

Those who have a tolerable knowledge of human nature will not stand in need of such lights.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.