The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.

The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.

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

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority trampling on the rights of the minority, have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism.