Difficulties indeed sometimes arise; but common sense and honest intentions will generally steer through them.

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

Our bills shall not be killed.

But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.