A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.