They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.