Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.

It will not do to investigate the subject of religion too closely, as it is apt to lead to infidelity.

Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought