The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

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."

Men must be ready, they must pride themselves and be happy to sacrifice their private pleasures, passions and interests, nay, their private friendships and dearest connections, when they stand in competition with the rights of society.

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