The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.