"The people are too apt to be led astray by the arts of popular demagogues."

"Good government is not to be obtained by placing the whole power in the hands of the people."

"The general government must be strong, whatever may be the consequence."

"I am a man of no property, and of no expectations."

"If we mean to be a commercial people, or even to be secure on our Atlantic side, we must in a great measure possess our selves of the means of naval annoyance and defense."