The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.

One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.

Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself.

I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

One insult pocketed soon produces another.

I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.