In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

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.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Precedents once established are so much positive power.

To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government, as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.