Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

For St. Paul only says that it is better to be married than to burn. Now I presume that if that apostle had known that providence would at an after day be so kind to any particular set of people as to furnish them with other means of extinguishing their fire than those of matrimony, he would have earnestly recmmended them to their practice.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.