The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

SIR,-Your letter of February the 18th came to hand on the 1st instant; and the request of the history of my physical habits would have puzzled me not a little, had it not been for the model with which you accompanied it, of Doctor Rush's answer to a similar inquiry. I live so much like other people, that I might refer to ordinary life as a history of my own. Like my friend the Doctor, I have lived temperately, eating very little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principle diet.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.