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

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

The smell rewards the care.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.