The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.