The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

I had rather be in my grave than in my present situation, I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world; and yet they charge me with wanting to be a king.

A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

They will avoid ... those Overgrown Military establishements which ... are ... particularly hostile to Republican liberty.

Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.