Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.

Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?

Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.