The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.