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

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

That this privilege of giving or of withholding our monies is an important barrier against the undue exertion of prerogative, which if left altogether without control may be exercised to our great oppression; and all history shews how efficacious is its intercession for redress of grievances and re-establishment of rights, and how improvident would be the surrender of so powerful a mediator

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of three-eighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce and contain more than half our inhabitants.