I do verily believe that if the principle were to prevail of a common law being in force in the United States (which principle possesses the general government at once of all the powers of the state governments, and reduces us to a single consolidated government), it would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

The soil is the gift of God to the living.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

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.

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.