The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been on my on haulin water to the fiel on that ol water cart wit all them dime bukets an that dipper just hittin an old dorthy just trottin and trottin an me up their hittin her wit that rope.

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.

Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

I enclose to you a copy of the declaration of independence as agreed to by the House, and also, as originally framed. You will judge whether it is the better or worse for the Critics.