The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential to the preservation, and the enjoyment of the blessing.

Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one.

One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions than the latter, are under fewer restraints also from taking undue advantage of the indiscretions of each other.

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.