As the happiness of the people is the sole end of government, so the consent of the people is the only foundation of it.

The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

Shall we have recourse to the art of printing? But this has not destroyed property or aristocracy or corporations or paper wealth in England or America, or diminished the influence of either; on the contrary, it has multiplied aristocracy and diminished democracy.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.

I shall have the liberty to think for myself.