I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.

I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endanger his freedom. 2. To divide every county into hundreds, of such size that all the children of each will be within reach of a central school in it.

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.