Should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had give them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation, is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men.