"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity its…"

"I have been the sport of fortune."

"It is a truth, which has been constantly verified by the experience of all ages and countries, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession…"

"A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing."

"The United States should be a great manufacturing as well as a great agricultural country."