Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.