The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

Have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means.

The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

The peculiar circumstances of the moment may render a measure more or less wise, but cannot render it more or less constitutional.

No principle of general law is more universally acknowledged, than the perfect equality of nations. Russia and Geneva have equal rights. It results from this equality, that no one can rightfully impose a rule on another....As no nation can prescribe a rule for others, none can make a law of nations.