The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.

Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.