It is a wise rule and should be fundamental in a government disposed to cherish its credit, and at the same time to restrain the use of it within the limits of its faculties, "never to borrow a dollar without laying a tax in the same instant for paying the interest annually, and the principal within a given term; and to consider that tax as pledged to the creditors on the public faith."

And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.