Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!

It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.