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

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

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

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

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

As you sometimes swear by him that made you, I conclude your sentiments do not correspond with his, in that which is the basis of the doctrine you both agree in: and this makes it impossible to imagine whence this congruity between you arises. "To grant that there is a supreme intelligence who rules the world and has established laws to regulate the actions of his creatures; and still to assert that man, in a state of nature, may be considered as perfectly free from all restraints of law and government, appears to a common understanding altogether irreconcilable.

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