The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

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.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.