The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing.

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

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.

Make Things rather than Persons the subjects of conversations.