I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.

The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith."