With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.