It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith."

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

He does most in God's great world who does his best in his own little world.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.