The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

The average American is nothing if not patriotic.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.