No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.