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.

If we move in mass, be it ever so circuitously, we shall attain our object; but if we break into squads, everyone pursuing the path he thinks most direct, we become an easy conquest to those who can now barely hold us in check.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

Nothing can now be believed that is seen in a newspaper.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.