...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

I see now our fireside formed into a groupe, no one member of which has a fibre in their composition which can ever produce any jarring or jealousies among us. No irregular passions, no dangerous bias, which may render problematical the future fortunes and happiness of our descendants.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.