No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

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.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Disarm the people- that is the best and most effective way to enslave them.

The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular, to the state legislatures.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of the nation.