The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.

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

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

It is folly to anticipate evils, and madness to create imaginary ones.

Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan Sewall in 1774, says: "I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination."

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form