No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

The tumults in America I expected would have produced in Europe an unfavorable opinion of our political state. But it has not. On the contrary, the small effect of these tumults seems to have given more confidence in the firmness of our governments. The interposition of the people themselves on the side of government has had a great effect on the opinion here in Europe.