[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.