No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people..

It may be a mistake, that man, in a state of nature, is more disposed to cruelty than courtesy.

'Tis social converse, animates the soul..

The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul..

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men..

By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new ….

I have my fears. Yet, notwithstanding the complicated difficulties that rise before us, there is no receding; and I should blush if in any instance t….

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments..

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition..

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of sla….

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of ….

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independe….

The balm of life, a kind and faithful friend..

It is necessary for every American, with becoming energy to endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for w….

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition..

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering it….

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas ….

The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civil….

Our situation is truly delicate & critical. On the one hand we are in need of a strong federal government founded on principles that will support the….

The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resol….

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials..