A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.

[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.