Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.

A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

we defer therefore till this time twelve month to avail ourselves of the instruction of that place, and particularly of your kindness in the two branches of Botany and Natural history to which we wish him particularly to apply.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.