Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.

I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.

The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best.

What is to become of an independent statesman, one who will bow the knee to no idol, who will worship nothing as a divinity but truth, virtue, and his country? I will tell you; he will be regarded more by posterity than those who worship hounds and horses; and although he will not make his own fortune, he will make the fortune of his country.