It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.