Edmund Burke: “They are not ignorant that in the present moment the object is less to form a king than to teach him that he should know…”

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.