If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observation of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in…

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our deares…

Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent.

He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will n…

Now let me be clear: I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.…

Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political tal…