Edmund Burke: “Whatever we may pretend, there is always more in the soundness of the materials than in the fashion of the work.”

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

Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.