Travelling is good for your health and necessary for your amusement.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical...A wise and frugal government...shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned...Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but only those specifically enumerated...Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands?

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.