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

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.