When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws were to create a rapid accumulation of property in a few hands, and to render the great mass of the population dependent and penniless.

Thank God, I also am an American!

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.

If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

Every breeze wafts intelligence from country to country, every wave rolls it and gives it forth, and all in turn receive it. There is a vast commerce of ideas, there are marts and exchanges for intellectual discoveries, and a wonderful fellowship of those individual intelligences which make up the minds and opinions of the age.