A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.

Who will govern the governors? There is only one force in the nation that can be depended upon to keep the government pure and the governors honest, and that is the people themselves. They alone, if well informed, are capable of preventing the corruption of power, and of restoring the nation to its rightful course if it should go astray. They alone are the safest depository of the ultimate powers of government.

no people can be both ignorant and free.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.