Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems to be the first.
John JayDistrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good will and kind conduct more speedily changed.
John JayThe wise and the good never form the majority of any large society and it seldom happens that their measures are uniformly adopted.... [All that wise and good men can do is] to persevere in doing their duty to their country and leave the consequences to him who made men only; neither elated by success, however great, nor discouraged by disappointments however frequent or mortifying.
John JayToo many in your state [Pennsylvania], as in this [New York], love pure democracy dearly. They seem not to consider that pure democracy, like pure rum, easily produces intoxication, and with it a thousand mad pranks and fooleries.
John JayAmong 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.
John JayThose who own the country ought to govern it.
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