There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

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

This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them.

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