In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

The local interest of a State ought in every case to give way to the interests of the Union. For when a sacrifice of one or the other is necessary, the former becomes only an apparent, partial interest, and should yield, on the principle that the smaller good ought never to oppose the greater good.

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

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

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.