Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.

I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.