It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.

That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

From candlelight to early bedtime, I read.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.