Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

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

A question arises whether all the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judicial, shall be left in this body? I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one Assembly.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.

Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.