MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.

So, ask the travelled inhabitant of any nation, in what country on earth would you rather live? — Certainly, in my own, where are all my friends, my relations, and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. Which would be your second choice? France.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

Courts love the people always, as wolves do the sheep.