Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.

Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.

That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.