Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.