Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy.

The rights of neutrality will only be respected when they are defended by an adequate power. A nation, despicable by its weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral.

. . . [The Judicial Branch] may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

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.