Let Americans disdain to be the instruments of European greatness! Let the thirteen States, bound together in a strict and indissoluble Union, concur in erecting one great American system, superior to the control of all transatlantic force or influence, and able to dictate the terms of the connection between the old and the new world!

A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association.

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

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

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.