John Jay

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 and to be alive to the welfare of others.

The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.

Those who own the country ought to govern it.