James McHenry

“Public credit is the vital air of public operations.”

“Let us have a government by which our lives, liberties, and properties will be secured.”

“Banish me, if you can, from the public esteem; but you can never banish me from my own.”

“Convinced that a government is the only safeguard for the liberties of the people...”

“The House of Representatives, in its legislative capacity, has no more right to catechise the President, than the President has to catechise the House.”