I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

One generation cannot bind another.