In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

A promise must never be broken.

Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.

Establish that a Government may decline a provision for its debts, though able to make it, and you overthrow all public morality, you unhinge all the principles that must preserve the limits of free constitutions.

I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.