Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing what they would with eagerness rush into if no such external impediments were to be feared.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

The natural effect of low interest is to increase trade and industry; because undertakings of every kind can be prosecuted with greater advantage.

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.