If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars.

The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes.