An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.

Heliotrope. To be sowed in the spring. A delicious flower, but I suspect it must be planted in boxes and kept in the house in the winter. The smell rewards the care.

I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.