I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

I desire no other inscription over my gravestone than: 'Here lies John Adams, who took upon himself the responsibility of peace with France in the year 1800'.

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.

That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience.