Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

[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 injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.

This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support [salary] is a power over his will.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

A promise must never be broken.