Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.

The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.