The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

A pirate spreading misery and ruin over the face of the ocean

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.