A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.