The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.