Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Many are the exercises of power reserved to the States wherein a uniformity of proceeding would be advantageous to all. Such are quarantines, health laws, regulations of the press, banking institutions, training militia, etc., etc.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

The States should be urged to concede to the General Government, with a saving of chartered rights, the exclusive power of establishing banks of discount for paper.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.