The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.