"However, political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be e…"

"Mr Campbell whom I never saw (to my knowledge) has made a very formidable figure of the Commander in Chief giving him a sufficient portion of Terror in his Countenance."

"how unkind it was of Noah now I have mentioned his name to suffer such a brood of Vermin to get a birth in the Ark"

"There is nothing more likely to produce an alteration in the conduct of the Indians than a conviction in their minds that we are able and determined to punish them for their depredations."

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports."