For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.

My reason for fixing them in office for a term of years, rather than for life, was that they might have an idea that they were at a certain period to return into the mass of the people and become the governed instead of the governors which might still keep alive that regard to the public good that otherwise they might perhaps be induced by their independence to forget.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God