All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.