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

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

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

I had heard my father say that he never knew a piece of land run away or break.

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.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.