Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

I believe the states can best govern our home concerns, and the general government our foreign ones.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

To me... it appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our own country; that these will continue through all future time; that every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution, and the circumstances in which he is placed.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.