The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people.

Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.