Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.