John Jay

John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat and jurist. He is noted for serving with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams in France and writing part of the Federalist Papers with Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. He also is remembered for serving on the U.S. Supreme Court as the first, as well as the youngest Chief Justice of the United States, from 1789 to 1794.

Quotes

• "The people who own the country ought to govern it." (reportedly "one of his favorite maxims")http://www.bartleby.com/73/764.html
• "No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent."
• "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
• "Only one adequate plan has ever appeared in the world, and that is the Christian dispensation"