Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity.

Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.

By [the] operations [of public improvement] new channels of communication will be opened between the States; the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.