He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

Let them revere nothing but religion, morality and liberty.

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'