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

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.