What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

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

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.