It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

The plough is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.

War...is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.