But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

I have sworn upon the altar of god.

By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.

When tempted to do any thing in secret, ask yourself if you would do it in public.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and entailment of a public debt are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning knife.