The man who has half a million of dollars in property... has a much higher interest in the government, than the man who has little or no property.

Whenever a man is known to seek promotion by intrigue, by temporizing, or by resorting to the haunts of vulgarity and vice for support, it may be inferred, with moral certainty, that he is not a man of real respectability, nor is he entitled to public confidence.

Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe.

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.