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

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make it wise in a nation to commit interests of so delicate and momentous a kind as those which concern its intercourse with the rest of the world, to the sole disposal of a magistrate, created and circumstanced, as would be a president of the United States.

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

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

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

A government ought to contain in itself every power requisite to the full accomplishment of the objects committed to its care, and to the complete execution of the trusts for which it is responsible, free from every other control but a regard to the public good and to the sense of the people.

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