The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.