But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the States.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.