The States are nations.

He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.