We might have been a free and great people together.
The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.