I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.

Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither.

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.