A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil.

An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.