If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

When I hear another express an opinion which is not mine, I say to myself, he has a right to his opinion, as I to mine. Why should I question it? His error does me no injury, and shall I become a Don Quixote, to bring all men by force of argument to one opinion? ...Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.