Whatever power may be necessary for the National Government a certain portion must necessarily be left in the States. It is impossible for one power to pervade the extreme parts of the U.S. so as to carry equal justice to them.

Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happi…

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.