This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.