The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under the superintending authority of an ecumenical Council, how great a portion of human evils would be avoided.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions of men are conveyed to each other adds a fresh embarrassment.

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

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.