The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

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?

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.