To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

The attempt of Lavoisier to reform chemical nomenclature is premature. One single experiment may destroy the whole filiation of his terms; and his string of sulphates, sulphites, and sulphures, may have served no end than to have retarded the progress of science by a jargon, from the confusion of which time will be requisite to extricate us.

I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.

I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.