I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

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

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.