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.

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.