The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of the first necessity to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

Societies exist under three forms sufficiently distinguishable. 1. Without government, as among our Indians. 2. Under governments wherein the will of every one has a just influence, as is the case in England in a slight degree, and in our states, in a great one. 3. Under governments of force: as is the case in all other monarchies and in most of the other republics. To have an idea of the curse of existence under these last, they must be seen. It is a government of wolves over sheep.

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.