"The United States should be a great manufacturing as well as a great agricultural country."

"Power, when it is abused, is of all things the most odious and detestable."

"The people are too apt to be led astray by the arts of popular demagogues."

"I have been in an agony of mind for some days past, and have at length determined to open my heart to you."

"Safety and happiness are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all ought to be sacrificed."