Tranquility is the old man's milk.

It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force.

The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army

The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.