The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive usurpations.

We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.

The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion.

Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it.

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.