The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district; all studied and appreciated as they merit; are the principal support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty.