Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.