The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

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

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the general government. I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it; but have left them as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of State or Church authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.