Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

When we consider how much climate contributes to the happiness of our condition, by the fine sensation it excites, and the productions it is the parent of, we have reason to value highly the accident of birth in such a one as that of Virginia.

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?