Government is at best a petulant servant and at worst a tyrannical master.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity.

We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own.

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles.