If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of communication, for by it I would soon regain all the rest

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

Instruct the mothers of the French people.