I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.

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.

A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.

The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.