A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?

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.

Can any reasonable man be well disposed toward a government which makes war and carnage the only means of supporting itself?

This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find a powerful protection in the other. Indeed, they will both be prevented from overpassing their constitutional limits by a certain rivalship, which will ever subsist between them.