The Dead Should Not Rule The Living

A System Of General Instruction, Which Shall Reach Every Description Of Our Citizens, From The Richest To The Poorest, As It Was The Earliest, So Will It Be The Latest, Of All The Public Concerns In Which I Shall Permit Myself To Take An Interest.

[the Federal Convention] Is Really An Assembly Of Demigods.

We Are Now Trusting To Those Who Are Against Us In Position And Principle, To Fashion To Their Own Form The Minds And Affections Of Our Youth... This Canker Is Eating On The Vitals Of Our Existence, And If Not Arrested At Once, Will Be Beyond Remedy.

Never Buy What You Do Not Want, Because It Is Cheap; It Will Be Dear To You.

What I Value More Than All Things, Good Humor.