The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.
