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

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.

The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. The form of this society prevents all manner of inconveniences.

[In the event of war, Americans would] resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe they, at length, become willing to run the risk of being less free.