History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods.

History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

Great learning and superior abilities...will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

The reins of government have been so long slackened, that I fear the people will not quietly submit to those restraints which are necessary for the peace and security of the community.

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.