If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies obtained by the bloodstained steel, or the tattered flags of the tented field, will never be envied. The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

Without books, I would certainly die.

In our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.