Stock dealers and banking companies, by the aid of a paper system, are enriching themselves to the ruin of our country, and swaying the government by their possession of the printing presses, which their wealth commands and by any other means, not always honorable to the character of our countrymen.

The small landholders are the most precious part of a state.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labour being abundant: here it is to make the most of our labour, land being abundant.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.