The Convention Probably Foresaw What It Has

We Are Attempting, By This Constitution, To Abolish Factions, And To Unite All Parties For The General Welfare.

The Obscurity Is Much Oftener In The Passions And Prejudices Of The Reasoner Than In The Subject.

In Testimony Of Their Respect For The Patriot Of Incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier Of Approved Valour The Statesman Of Consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents And Virtues Will Be Admired By Grateful Posterity Long After This Marble Shall Have Mouldered Into Dust.

You Should Not Have Taken Advantage Of My Sensibility To Steal Into My Affections Without My Consent.

Experience Teaches, That Men Are Often So Much Governed By What They Are Accustomed To See And Practice, That The Simplest And Most Obvious Improvements . . . Are Adopted With Hesitation, Reluctance, And Slow Gradations.