If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it. Events may prove otherwise; and if they see their interest in separating why should we take sides? God bless them both, and keep them in union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.

I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.