Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes be instituted by some informal and unauthorized propositions, made by some patriotic and respectable citizen or number of citizens.

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm . . . But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.