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

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

Genius is sorrow's child.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

What havoc, said I to myself, would these manners make in America! Our governors, our judges, our senators or representatives, and even our ministers, would be appointed by harlots, for money; and their judgments, decrees, and decisions, be sold to repay themselves, or, perhaps, to procure the smiles of profligate females.

The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.