We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

Yet by such worthless beings is a great nation to be governed and even made to deify their old king because he is only a fool and a maniac, and to forgive and forget his having lost to them a great and flourishing empire.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

A great deal of love given to a few is better than a little to many.

Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.