Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.