A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Never put off your massage until tomorrow if you can get it today.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends.

Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom.

Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.