The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing a number of bad ones.

The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source of national wealth, and has accordingly become a primary object of their political cares.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Were it not that it might require too long a discussion, it would not be difficult to demonstrate that a large and well-organized republic can scarcely lose its liberty from any other cause than that of anarchy, to which a contempt of the laws is the high-road.