"Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighboring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves."

"We alone regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs, not as a harmless, but as a useless character."

"We are lovers of the beautiful, yet with economy, and we cultivate the intellect without effeminacy. Wealth we employ rather for use than for show, and we set more store by a confession of poverty tha…"

"For what you hold is, to speak somewhat plainly, a tyranny; to take it perhaps was wrong, but to let it go is unsafe."

"For you are angry with me, who have no hand in the matter, and with yourselves too, if I may say so, for assenting to my counsels and sharing in my errors."