No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.