That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

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

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.