Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.

Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste.

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.