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.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.