As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

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.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

[H]owever weak our country may be, I hope we shall never sacrifice our liberties.

There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed may be made subservient to useful purposes; but which if left entirely to itself, may be attended with pernicious effects.

The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.

It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.