When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

No person that has enjoyed the sweets of liberty can be insensible of its infinite value, or can reflect on its reverse without horror and detestation

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.