"I am a soldier and a politician, but I am also a philosopher. I seek the truth, and I speak what I believe to be true."

"To legislate is to foresee."

"A state too expensive in itself ultimately falls into decay."

"The United States seems destined by Providence to plague America with miseries in the name of freedom."

"Joseph, let us go away. They are throwing us out of here. Where shall we go?"