Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.