There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it." For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'