At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure.

Let us impart all the blessings we possess, or ask for ourselves, to the whole family of mankind.

..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear.

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious.

I have never been a communicant.