The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

[L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

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.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.