I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

The evils which of necessity encompass the life of man are sufficiently numerous. Why should we add to them by voluntarily distressing and destroying one another? Peace, brothers, is better than war. In a long and bloody war, we lose many friends, and gain nothing. Let us then live in peace and friendship together, doing to each other all the good we can.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.