A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Merchants have no country.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.