We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.

It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It is agreed by those who have seriously considered the subject that no individual has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land, for instance. By a universal law, indeed, whatever, whether fixed or movable, belongs to all men equally and in common is the property for the moment of him who occupies it; but when he relinquishes the occupation, the property goes with it. Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.