Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.

Gentlemen, you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for, I have grown not only gray, but almost blind in the service of my country. - March 15, 1783

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.

No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more necessary...The man must be bad indeed who can look upon the events of the American Revolution without feeling the warmest gratitude towards the great Author of the Universe whose divine interposition was so frequently manifested in our behalf....In war He directed the sword, and in peace, He has ruled in our councils.