War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would leave the existence of the Union entirely at their mercy . . . . It is to little purpose to say that a neglect or omission of this kind [not letting the feds have elections], would be unlikely to take place. The constitutional possibility of the thing, without an equivalent for the risk, is an unanswerable objection.

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

War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.