Neither my father or mother, grandfather or grandmother, great grandfather or great grandmother, nor any other relation that I know of, or care a farthing for, has been in England these one hundred and fifty years; so that you see I have not one drop of blood in my veins but what is American.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

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

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love?

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