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

These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular commotions especially, the clamors of interested and factious men are often mistaken for patriotism.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.

To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.

It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most of the purposes of money. Transfers of stock, or public debt, are there equivalent to payments in specie; or, in other words, stock, in the principal transactions of business, passes current as specie. The same thing would, in all probability, happen here, under the like circumstances.