Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

When a true genius appears you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.