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Delay is preferable to error.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [political offices], a rottenness begins in his conduct.
We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.
These are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people, c...
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
Of all the errors which can possibly be committed to the education of youth, that of sending them to Europe is the most fatal. I see [clearly]...
No body can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown. It would have been a prodigality for wh...
My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and pure happiness.
I was duped ... by the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently under...