It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

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

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

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

The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.

The deliberative sense of the community should govern.