There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.

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.

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superiour to all private passions.

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

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.