That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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

Every individual of the community at large has an equal right to the protection of government.

Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it ought to be made; but if compensation be impracticable, that impracticability ought to be an obstacle to a clearly essential reform.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.