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.

A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.

In the nature of things, those who have no property and see their neighbors possess much more than they think them to need, cannot be favorable to laws made for the protection of property. When this class becomes numerous, it becomes clamorous. It looks on property as its prey and plunder, and is naturally ready, at times, for violence and revolution.

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.

We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.

The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.

Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.