The federal government is our servant, not our master.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.

By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey is like the battle of the kite and snake; whichever destroys the other, leaves a destroyer the less for the world.