That government that governs least governs best.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character