Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a Congress.

There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off. A whole government of our own choice, managed by persons whom we love, revere, and can confide in, has charms in it for which men will fight.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.