Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.

Taxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.