I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.

The same facts impress us differently.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Hemp is one of the greatest, most important substances of our nation

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

In our Richmond there is much fanaticism, but chiefly among the women. They have their night meetings and prayer parties, where, attended by their priests, and sometimes by a hen-pecked husband, they pour forth the effusions of their love to Jesus, in terms as amatory and carnal, as their modesty would permit them to use a mere earthly lover.