In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources. - Alexander Hamilton

of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.

for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other. These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations.

There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.