no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

The people cannot be all, and always well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

The great cause which divides our countries is not to be decided by individual animosities. The harmony of private societies cannot weaken national efforts.