Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.
An individual, thinking himself injured, makes more noise than a State.
It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.
It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of peace and friendship with all mankind.
I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.