We could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.

The sickly, weakly, timid man fears the people, and is a Tory by nature. The healthy, strong and bold cherishes them, and is formed a Whig by nature.

The influence over government must be shared among all the people. If every individual which composes their mass participates of the ultimate authority, the government will be safe, because the corrupting of the whole mass will exceed any private resources of wealth, and public ones cannot be provided but by levies on the people. In this case every man would have to pay his own price.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

I sincerely congratulate you on the arrival of the mockingbird. Learn all the children to venerate it as a superior being in the form of a bird, or as a being which will haunt them if any harm is done to itself or its eggs.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.