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

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.