Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

[I]n framing a Government for a nation we ought, in those provisions which are designed to be permanent, to calculate not on temporary, but on permanent causes of expence.

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

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

[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.

The Achaeans soon experienced, as often happens, that a victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of few soils: And in the main it will be found, that a power over a man's support is a power over his will.