The difficulty is no longer to find candidates for the offices, but offices for the candidates.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people. An insurrection has consequently begun of science talents and courage against rank and birth, which have fallen into contempt. It has failed in its first effort, because the mobs of the cities, the instrument used for its accomplishment, debased by ignorance, poverty and vice, could not be restrained to rational action. But the world will soon recover from the panic of this first catastrophe.

Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.

Education is here placed among the articles of public care, not that it would be proposed to take its ordinary branches out of the hands of private enterprise, which manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal, but a public institution can alone supply those sciences which, though rarely called for, are yet necessary to complete the circle, all the parts of which contribute to the improvement of the country, and some of them to its preservation.