A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Manufacturing establishments not only occasion a positive augmentation of the produce and revenue of the society . . . they contribute essentially to rendering them greater than they could possibly be, without such establishments. These circumstances are . . . greater scope for the diversity of talents and dispositions which discriminate men from each other.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

[V]igor of government is essential to the security of liberty.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.