Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
It requires no skill in the science of war to discern that uniformity in the organization and discipline of the militia would be attended with the most beneficial effects, whenever they were called into service for the public defense.
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.
The hope of impunity is a strong incitement to sedition; the dread of punishment, a proportionably strong discouragement to it.
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy.
War, like most other things, is a science to be acquired and perfected by diligence, by perserverance, by time, and by practice.
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or security.
The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
To form a safe and satisfactory judgment of the proper remedy, it is absolutely necessary that we should be well acquainted with the extent and malignity of the disease.
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
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