Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.

I served with General Washington in die Legislature of Virginia...and...with Doctor Franklin in Congress. I never heard neither of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point.

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.