Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.

As, for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam, so judges should be withdrawn from their bench, whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may indeed injure them in fame or in fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.

We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.