No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one.

Men of high learning and abilities are few in every country; and by taking in those who are not so, the able part of the body have their hands tied by the unable.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

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

A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.