There is nothing absurd or impracticable in the idea of a league or alliance between independent nations for certain defined purposes precisely stated in a treaty regulating all the details of time, place, circumstance, and quantity; leaving nothing to future discretion; and depending for its execution on the good faith of the parties.

No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

To presume a want of motives for such contests . . . would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive, and rapacious.

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

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

[T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . .

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.