The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.

Foreign influence is truly the Grecian horse to a republic. We cannot be too careful to exclude its influence.

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that their confidence in and obedience to a government, will be commonly proportioned to the goodness or badness of its administration . . . . Various reasons have been suggested in the course of these papers, to induce a probability that the general government will be better administered than the particular governments.

Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.