The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

. . . in the full tide of successful experiment.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.