Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

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.

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.

And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.