The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

A promise must never be broken.

Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinion, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law...That portion of the sovereignty, to which each individual is entitled, can never be too highly prized. It is that for which we have fought and bled.

The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible principle of republican government) has no place but in the reveries of those political doctors whose sagacity disdains the admonitions of experimental instruction.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.