The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

[The public has] the habit now of invalidating opinions emanating from me by reference to my age and infirmities.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.