We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other departments. The appeals to the people, therefore, would usually be made by the executive and judiciary departments.

Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

Every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.