It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

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

But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.