A rigid economy of the public contributions and absolute interdiction of all useless expenses will go far towards keeping the government honest and unoppressive.

Every gentleman plays billiards, but someone who plays billiards too well, is no gentleman.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.

To make us one nation as to foreign concerns, and keep us distinct in Domestic ones gives the outline of the proper division of powers between the general [national] and particular [state] governments.