These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Learn to think continentally.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.