There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.