"In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be..." — Alexander Hamilton

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.