Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.
Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.
Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.
The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.