The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

In contemplating the pecuniary resources needed for the removal of such a number to so great a distance [freed slaves to Africa], my thoughts and hopes have long been turned to the rich fund presented in the western lands of the nation . . .

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

It is a principle incorporated into the settled policy of America, that as peace is better than war, war is better than tribute.

[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual.

I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they carry strong marks of the haste, and still stronger marks of the inexperience, under which they were framed.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.