Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one Assembly.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.