"I have been a victim of my own imprudence."

"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."

"I consider the executive power as co-extensive with the objects of government."

"The accumulation of debt is the natural disease of all governments."

"I am a man of no property, and of no expectations."