"It is a truth, which has been taught by the experience of all ages, that the people are too apt to be led astray by the arts of popular demagogues."

"All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the people."

"Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals."

"The true danger to America is the spirit of faction and disunion."

"I have been a madman."