In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

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

There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit. For it is an observation as true, as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money.

Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.

This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.

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

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.