The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.