I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world."

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.

"In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate."

[F]requently the more trifling the subject the more animated and protracted the discussion.

There's nothing left . . . but to get drunk.