That paper money has some advantages is admitted. But that its abuses also are inevitable and, by breaking up the measure of value, makes a lottery of all private property, cannot be denied.

Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

Resolved ... that it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights: that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism - free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.