It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

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.