History has informed us that bodies of men as well as individuals are susceptible of the spirit of tyranny.

I am already sensible of decay in the power of walking, and find my memory not so faithful as it used to be. This may be partly owing to the incessant current of new matter flowing constantly through it; but I ascribe to years their share in it also.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.