Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.

The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

The freedom of the press should be inviolate.