It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

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

The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!