"I have no taste for pleasure."

"It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really c…"

"I have always been in favor of a general government, and I am in favor of it now."

"I have been a fool."

"The power of the purse should be in the hands of the national government."