We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

Legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

The human character, we believe, requires in general constant and immediate control to prevent its being biased from right by the seductions of self-love.

MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.