I have never been a communicant.

Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood.

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.

[V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

[The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it.