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

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.

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