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

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

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

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity.