How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

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.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

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

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.