Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.

What we call pleasure, and rightly so is the absence of all pain.

There is no being of any race who, if he finds the proper guide, cannot attain to virtue.

Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

By doubting we come at truth.

It is not only arrogant, but it is profligate, for a man to disregard the world's opinion of himself.