The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

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

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor