The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into the administration of them in every function to which they are sufficient; they will err sometimes and accidentally, but never designedly, and with a systematic and persevering purpose of overthrowing the free principles of the government.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.