A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.