Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible of any other government than that of force, a conclusion not founded in truth nor experience.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

And say, finally, whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government or information to the people. This last is the most legitimate engine of government. Educate and inform the whole mass of people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

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

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.