Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.

The temple through which alone lies the road to that of Liberty.

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

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

The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were not concerned in the execution of it. Adding to these considerations the natural diversity of human opinions on all new and complicated subjects, it is impossible to consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

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 proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.