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

A victorious and powerful ally is but another name for a master.

Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.

In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect in the government, frequent appeals would in great measure deprive the government of that veneration which time bestows on every thing, and without which perhaps the wisest and freest governments would not possess the requisite stability . . . a constitutional road to the decision of the people ought to be marked out and kept open, for certain great and extraordinary occasions

The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs regret. The origin and outset of the American Republic contain lessons of which posterity ought not to be deprived: and happily there never was a case in which every interesting incident could be so accurately preserved.