Question boldly even the existence of God.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the most formidable dread at present and will be for many years. That of the executive will come in its turn, but it will be at a remote period.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.