I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.

if the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

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.

No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within which human virtue can bear the temptations of power. Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.