If I could not go to heaven with but a party, I would not go there at all. Therefore, I am not of the party of federalists. But I am much further from that of the anti-federalists.

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

[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.