I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security.

The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

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

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

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