A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

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

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.