The legislatures will have better means of information. They can discover the danger at a distance; and possessing all the organs of civil power, and the confidence of the people, they can at once adopt a regular plan of opposition, in which they can combine all the resources of the community. They can readily communicate with each other in the different States, and unite their common forces for the protection of their common liberty.

Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.

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

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

The experience of past ages may inform us, that when the circumstances of a people render them distressed, their rulers generally recur to severe, cruel, and oppressive measures. Instead of endeavoring to establish their authority in the affection of their subjects, they think they have no security but in their fear.