The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.