That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of their faculties, and free choice of their occupations.

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Who are to be the electors of the Federal Representatives? Not the rich, more than the poor

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government. The passions ought to be controlled and regulated by the government.

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