The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.

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

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not wrought a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind, that greater energy of government is essential to the welfare and prosperity of the community

We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.