The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

In America, it is indispensable that every well wisher of true liberty should understand that acts of tyranny can only proceed from the publick. The publick, then, is to be watched, in this country, as, in other countries kings and aristocrats are to be watched.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.