There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

It is Mortifying to suppose it possible that a people able and zealous to contend with the Enemy should be reduced to fold their Arms for want of the means of defence; yet no resources that we know of, ensure us against this event.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

The best (remedy) I can devise would be to give future commissions to (federal) judges for six years with a re-appointability by the President with the approbation of both houses. If this would not be independence enough, I know not what would be.