No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.

After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

There can be no time, no state of things, in which Credit is not essential to a Nation.

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.

Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.