The dead should not rule the living

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war-and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.