About John Jay: John Jay was an American statesman, Patriot, diplomat, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, signer of the Treaty of Paris, and first Chief Justice of the United States (1789–95).
Those who own the country ought to govern it.
We must go home to be happy, and our home is not in this world. Here we have nothing to do but our duty.
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.
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
