The people, when they have been unchecked, have been as unjust, tyrannical, brutal, barbarous, and cruel, as any king or senate possessed of uncontrollable power. The majority has eternally, and without one exception, usurped over the rights of the minority.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.

As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families.

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.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.