“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
