A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.

I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those of their own country. The same just and benevolent motives which produced interdiction in force against this criminal conduct will doubtless be felt by Congress in devising further means of suppressing the evil.

No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.