In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.