When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.