We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices, and in the event of peace on terms which have been contemplated by some powers we shall form to the American union a barrier against the dangerous extension of the British Province of Canada and add to the Empire of liberty an extensive and fertile Country thereby converting dangerous Enemies into valuable friends.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

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

I cannot live without books.