My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.