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.

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

You can never plan the future by the past.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.