The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.

It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it.

When there is no vision, there is no hope.

It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings, which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those, who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.

Do not let anyone claim tribute of American patriotism if they even attempt to remove religion from politics.