Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.

It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

To every obstacle oppose patience, perseverance and soothing language.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

For the power given to Congress by the Constitution does not extend to the internal regulation of the commerce of a State (that is to say, of the commerce between citizen and citizen,) which remain exclusively with its own legislature; but to its external commerce only, that is to say, its commerce with another State, or with foreign nations, or with the Indian tribes.