A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result not of theory, but "of a spirit of amity, and that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable" . . . the equal vote allowed to each state, is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual states, and an instrument for preserving that residuary sovereignty.

A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces the legislative, executive, and judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches.