As the select assemblies for choosing the President, as well as the State legislatures who appoint the senators, will in general be composed of the most enlightened and respectable citizens, there is reason to presume that their attention and their… — John Jay Copy Share Image
“It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect… — John Jay Copy Share Image
Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government… — John Jay Copy Share Image
“We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.” — John Jay Copy Share Image
As the select assemblies for choosing the President, as well as the State legislatures who appoint the senators, will in general be composed of… — John Jay Copy Share Image
The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy. — John Jay Copy Share Image
I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity and I determined to obtain it. — John Jay Copy Share Image
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. — John Jay Copy Share Image
“Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.” — John Jay Copy Share Image
Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of… — John Jay Copy Share Image
“Too many in your state [Pennsylvania], as in this [New York], love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like… — John Jay Copy Share Image
“It has often given my pleasure to observe, that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected fertile,… — John Jay Copy Share Image
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