The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts.

You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike.

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.