Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.

It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation.