For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects.

Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this revolutionary age, and our country will have its full share in that as in other merits.

An armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics - that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.