What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Have the strength to be an honest person.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.