It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.

If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.