My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government