Perseverance in object, though not by the most direct way, is often more laudable than perpetual changes, as often as the object shifts light.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.