Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

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.