You will permit me to say, that a greater drama is now acting on this theatre than has heretofore been brought on the American tage, or any other in the world. We exhibit at present the novel and astonishing spectacle of a whole people deliberating calmly on what form of government will be most conducive to their happiness; and deciding with an unexpected degree of unanimity in favour of a system which they conceive calculated to answer the purpose.

Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty.

It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury.