Merchants have no country.

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.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.