Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

No government can continue good but under the control of the people; and . . . . their minds are to be informed by education what is right and what wrong; to be encouraged in habits of virtue and to be deterred from those of vice . . . . These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure and order of government.

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

I have come to a resolution myself as I hope every good citizen will, never again to purchase any article of foreign manufacture which can be had of American make, be the difference of price what it may.

No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.