Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

We electors have an important constitutional power placed in our hands; we have a check upon two branches of the legislature.

The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America.

Pray how does your asparagus perform?

As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be.