There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to the formation, direction, or support of the NATIONAL FORCES.

The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they intrust the management of their affairs; but it does not require an unqualified complaisance to every sudden breeze of passion or to every transient impulse which the people may receive from the arts of men, who flatter their prejudices to betray their interests.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.

The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.

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

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