Some other natural rights... [have] not yet entered into any declaration of rights.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

A truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.

Long accustomed to the use of European manufactures, [the Cherokee Indians] are as incapable of returning to their habits of skinsand furs as we are, and find their wants the less tolerable as they are occasioned by a war [the American Revolution] the event of which is scarcely interesting to them.