Respectable Citizens Quotes by John Jay

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John Jay has 8 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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…
• Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form…
• As the select assemblies for choosing the President, as well as the State legislatures who appoint the senators, will in general be…

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