The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling which they overburden the inferior number is a shilling saved to their own pockets.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?