Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character