Genius is sorrow's child.

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.

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.