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

That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

Nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties.

We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

It is presumable that no country will be able to borrow of foreigners upon better terms than the United States, because none can, perhaps, afford so good security.

Would there not be the greatest reason to apprehend, that error in the first sentence would be the parent of error in the second sentence? That the strong bias of one decision would be apt to overrule the influence of any new lights, which might be brought to vary the complexion of another decision? Those, who know any thing of human nature, will not hesitate to answer these questions in the affirmative.