"I have great hopes that we shall love each other much when we become better acquainted."

"The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny, are to diffuse it generally among the people, and to give to all, in proportion to their interest in it, a proportionate sh…"

"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we are about to present to the world, of the practicability of a decent and republican government, and of maintaining it in…"

"The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its wounds and restore it to a sound and healthy state."

"I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."