In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

The eyes of our citizens are not sufficiently open to the true cause of our distress. They ascribe them to everything but their true cause, the banking system

A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.

When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.