The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.

I hope the terms of Excellency, Honor, Worship, Esquire, forever disappear from among us... I wish that of Mr. would follow them.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.