In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference in religious opinion. Time has at length revealed the true remedy. Every relaxation of narrow and rigorous policy, wherever it has been tried, has been found to assuage the disease.

If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.