A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.

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

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

The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity

Let frugality and industry be our virtues.

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.