But though a funded debt is not in the first instance, an absolute increase of Capital, or an augmentation of real wealth; yet by serving as a New power in the operation of industry, it has within certain bounds a tendency to increase the real wealth of a Community, in like manner as money borrowed by a thrifty farmer, to be laid out in the improvement of his farm may, in the end, add to his Stock of real riches.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

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

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .