"The idea of an independent executive is a dangerous one."

"Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred."

"All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people."

"There are some things which are not to be reasoned into, but to be felt."

"The incorporation of a bank, and the powers assumed by the bill, have not, in my opinion, been delegated to the United States by the Constitution."