I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is the most unfit man I know for such a place.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to our god alone. I enquire after no man's and trouble none with mine; nor is it given to us in this life to know whether yours or mine, our friend's or our foe's, are exactly the right.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.

I believe we may lessen the danger of buying and selling votes, by making the number of voters too great for any means of purchase. I may further say that I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.