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

A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.

This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of President will seldom fall to the lot of any many who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.

If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.

A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

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

It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.