He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

In a free society with a government based on reason, it is inevitable that there will be no uniform opinion about important issues. Those accustomed to suppression and control by governmental authority see this as leading only to chaos. But a government of the people requires difference of opinion in order to discover truth and to take advantage of the opportunity that only understanding brings.

I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.