Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Here sir, the people govern.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear a proper countenance. Arrears of interest, continually accruing, will be as continual a monument, either of inability, or of ill faith and will not cease to have an evil influence on public credit.