But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man. We do not claim these under the charters of kings or legislators, but under the King of Kings.