To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.

The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the yoke of tyranny, as America did.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive to emigration by revoking the liberty which they now enjoy, would be the same species of folly which has dishonoured and depopulated flourishing kingdoms.