Where there is no property there is no injustice.

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

In the beginning, all the world was America.

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind , and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections:;; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.