The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

We must endeavor to forget our former love for them [the British] and to hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.

I know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.

We might have been a free and great people together.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.