Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

I see no comfort in outliving one's friends, and remaining a mere monument of the times which are past.

Our public credit is good, but the abundance of paper has produced a spirit of gambling in the funds, which has laid up our ships at the wharves as too slow instruments of profit, and has even disarmed the hand of the tailor of his needle and thimble. They say the evil will cure itself. I wish it may; but I have rarely seen a gamester cured, even by the disasters of his vocation.

The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.

Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man.

Every people may establish what form of government they please, and change it as they please, the will of the nation being the only thing essential.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.