Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods.

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

Delay is preferable to error.