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

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.

Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!' But in this exclamation, I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in public company-I mean hell.

In every society where property exists there will ever be a struggle between rich and poor. Mixed in one assembly, equal laws can never be expected; they will either be made by the member to plunder the few who are rich, or by the influence to fleece the many who are poor.