They are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes.

The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

When you are doubting whether a thing is worth the trouble of going to see, recollect that you will never again be so near it. You may repent not having seen it, but you can never repent having seen it.

The cement of this union is in the heart blood of every American. I do not believe there is on earth a government established on so immovable a basis.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.