Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

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

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness or badness of its administration . . . . Various reasons have been suggested in the course of these papers, to induce a probability that the general government will be better administered than the particular governments.

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.