They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . .