It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.

Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

I sincerely join you in abjuring all political connection with every foreign power; and tho I cordially wish well to the progress of liberty in all nations, and would forever give it the weight of our countenance, yet they are not to be touched without contamination from their other bad principles. Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

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?

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.