[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.
Alexander HamiltonThe inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.
Alexander HamiltonLaw is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?
Alexander HamiltonGive me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.
Alexander Hamilton