John Jay Quotes
- No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
- Those who own the country ought to govern it.
- Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers. And it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest, of a…
- The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.
- I saw one excellency was within my reach - it was brevity and I determined to obtain it.
- The only way to be loved is to be and to appear lovely; to possess and display kindness, benevolence, tenderness; to be free from selfishness…
- Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may…
- 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…