The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

The ocean ... like the air, is the common birth-right of mankind.