The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

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

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.