The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.

Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness.

I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.