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

As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard.

When human laws contradict or discountenance the means, which are necessary to preserve the essential rights of any society, they defeat the proper end of all laws, and so become null and void.

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

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

A promise must never be broken.

That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and consequently have one common right. No reason can be assigned why one man should exercise any power or preeminence over his fellow-creatures more than another; unless they have voluntarily vested him with it.