Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.

A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government