If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

The smell rewards the care.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.

The reward of esteem, respect and gratitude [is] due to those who devote their time and efforts to render the youths of every successive age fit governors for the next.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.