The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished characters of the community, forbids the commitment of the trust to a small number of persons.

Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

As to Taxes, they are evidently inseparable from Government. It is impossible without them to pay the debts of the nation, to protect it from foreign danger, or to secure individuals from lawless violence and rapine.

Learn to think continentally.

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

The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.