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.

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

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

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.

What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statutes the next.

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

CREDIT supposes specific and permanent funds for the punctual payment of interest, with a moral certainty of a final redemption of the principal.