Learn to think continentally.

The superiority...enjoyed by nations that have...perfected a branch of industry, constitutes a...formidable obstacle.

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

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

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

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.