The concentrating of powers in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one.

That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

I believe in good luck, and the harder I work and the more I believe in myself, the luckier I get.

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.