"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of…"

"Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred."

"The only security against faction and insurrection, is in a firm, energetic government."

"I have been a very unhappy man."

"It is a truth, which has been taught by the experience of all ages, that the people are too apt to be led astray by the arts of popular demagogues."