Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists