I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

Earnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.

...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

I am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.

With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.

Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps.