We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.

[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market.

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.