I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

[I] never understood [what a republican government was and] I believe no other man ever did or ever will.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

The numbers of men in all ages have preferred ease, slumber, and good cheer to liberty, when they have been in competition.

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short against the gates of earth and hell.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.