"I feel the deepest affliction at the news we have just received at the loss of our dear and inestimable friend Lauren…"

"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience ha…"

"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives."

"Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and t…"

"Every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes by force of the term a right to employ al…"

"If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to…"

"If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would …"

"And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value."

"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or pe…"

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."