Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.

Tranquility is the old man's milk.

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.