Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.
From Alexander Hamilton
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
A promise must never be broken.
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.
The honor of a nation is its life.
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
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