I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being.

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

By my rambling digressions I perceive myself to be growing old.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.