Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government.