"I am not for transferring all the powers of the States to the General Government, and all those of that government to the Executive branch."

"The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us."

"The greatest danger to American freedom is a highly centralized government."

"The way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to."

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."