If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.

Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.

Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.