I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Without bread all is misery.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

Freedom is not an empty sound; it is not an abstract idea; it is not a thing that nobody can feel. It means, - and it means nothing else, - the full and quiet enjoyment of your own property. If you have not this, if this be not well secured to you, you may call yourself what you will, but you are a slave.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.