Communities should be planned with an eye to the effect on the human spirit of being continually surrounded by a maximum of beauty.

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.