Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

Time indeed changes manners and notions, and so far we must expect institutions to bend to them. But time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch, and if the gangrene is to prevail at last, let the day be kept off as long as possible.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Ministers and merchants love nobody.