Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.

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

There's no such thing as a free lunch, unless you have a coupon for a free lunch...or someone gives you a lunch...never mind.

I wish I could lay down beside her and die too.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle