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

The true principle of a republic is that the people should choose whom they please to govern them. Representation is imperfect, in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked. The great source of free government, popular election, should be perfectly pure, and the most unbounded liberty allowed.

Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;—war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.