The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.

It is not only the juror's right, but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the instruction of the court.

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

I am for making of terms annual, and for sending an entire new set every year.

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

The History of our Revolution will be one continued Lye from one End to the other. The Essence of the whole will be that Dr Franklins electrical Rod, Smote the Earth and out Spring General Washington. That Franklin electrified him with his Rod - and thence forward these two conducted all the Policy Negotiations Legislation and War.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.