Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Establish the eternal truth that acquiescence under insult is not the way to escape war.

It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.